Cisco Switch is taking root on our HPE Comware core switches

[Franky187]

Good Day

We have a ISP that we are trying to bring online using 3 vlans but when the link is up, their switching environment becomes root and it causes topology changes and spanning-tree problems. I have enabled stp role-restriction to avoid this but now the port is a Alternate Port (Boundary) and I can't send or receive any traffic. I don't believe there is anything on my end and that the ISP needs to change their config. I wanted to know if anyone else has dealt with this. The port in question is discarding and I can't bring it out of the restriction because it will start flapping the network across all my client vlans, which is what was happening. 

----[Port37(Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/37)][DISCARDING]----
Port protocol : Enabled
Port role : Alternate Port (Boundary)
Port ID : 128.37
Port cost(Legacy) : Config=auto, Active=20
Desg.bridge/port : 8192.684f-64c5-7979, 128.236
Port edged : Config=disabled, Active=disabled
Point-to-Point : Config=auto, Active=true
Transmit limit : 10 packets/hello-time
TC-Restriction : Disabled
Role-Restriction : Enabled
Protection type : Config=none, Active=none
MST BPDU format : Config=auto, Active=802.1s
Port Config-
Digest-Snooping : Disabled
Rapid transition : False
Num of VLANs mapped : 3
Port times : Hello 2s MaxAge 20s FwdDelay 15s MsgAge 1s RemHops 20
BPDU sent : 1
TCN: 0, Config: 0, RST: 0, MST: 1
BPDU received : 202886
TCN: 0, Config: 0, RST: 202886, MST: 0

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